Superboy #89
(June 1961)

DC, 1949 Series
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Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly, with the exception of Feb., May, Aug., and Nov.
On-sale Date
1961-04-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Brand
Superman DC National Comics
Editing
Mort Weisinger (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #53 and copyright registration.

Superboy's Big Brother! (Table of Contents)

Superboy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Stan Kaye
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Superboy; Mon-El
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Test Your Talent (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Art Instruction, Inc. courses / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Superboy's Big Brother! Part I (Table of Contents: 2)

Superboy / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Bernstein
Pencils
George Papp
Inks
George Papp
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese

Genre
superhero
Characters
Superboy [Kal-El]; Mon-El [also as Bob Cobb]; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Krypto (cameo); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback)
Synopsis
When a space ship crashes outside Smallville, Superboy finds an amnesiac, super-powered youth who might be his older brother. He christens him Mon-El and sets him up with a secret identity, but he soon finds evidence that Mon-El is not, in fact, Kryptonian.
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Indexer Notes

1st appearance of Mon-El. Story reworked from "Superman's Big Brother" in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #80 (January-February 1953).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Ollie / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Henry Boltinoff
Pencils
Henry Boltinoff
Inks
Henry Boltinoff
Colors
?
Letters
Henry Boltinoff

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Here's a customer, Ollie. Take care of him!
Genre
humor
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Adventure Comics; Tales of the Bizarrro World / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[Superboy's Big Brother! Part II] The Secret of Mon-El! (Table of Contents: 6)

Superboy / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Bernstein
Pencils
George Papp
Inks
George Papp
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese

Genre
superhero
Characters
Superboy; Mon-El [Bob Cobb] (origin); Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang; Miss Joyce; King Mycerinua; Rhodopis; Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); unnamed Phantom Zone prisoner (flashback)
Synopsis
Trying to prove Mon-El isn't actually Kryptonian, Superboy accidentally exposes him to lead, which both poisons him and returns his memory. Mon-El remembers that he is a space explorer from Daxam, who visited Krypton, meeting Jor-El and Lara, before arriving on Earth. To save his life, Superboy sends Mon-El into the Phantom Zone until he can cure him of his lead poisoning.
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Keywords
Daxam; Phantom Zone

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Smallville Mailsack / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mort Weisinger
Pencils
Curt Swan (logo illustration)
Inks
Stan Kaye (logo illustration)
Colors
? (logo illustration)
Letters
typeset

Characters
Superboy; Krypto

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Alan Rapoport, Joe Reeves, Paul W. DeFazio, Carole Rokaw, Bill Hoermann, Eddie Link, Norm Conley, and Harry Meskin.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

Ollie / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils
Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks
Henry Boltinoff
Colors
?
Letters
Henry Boltinoff

First Line of Dialogue or Text
I hope this moose horn works!
Genre
humor

Coming... Super-Attractions! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen; Adventure Comics; Action Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

The Super-Cop of Smallville! (Table of Contents: 10)

Superboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Jerry Siegel
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Stan Kaye
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Superboy [Clark Kent]; Chief Parker
Synopsis
The entire Smallville police force is quarantined so Superboy has to take their place.

Bicycle Windshield (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Bicycle Windshield / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

204 Revolutionary War Soldiers (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Revolutionary War Soldiers / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Superboy's Big Brother!
    Superboy
  2. 1. Test Your Talent
    Art Instruction, Inc. courses
  3. 2. Superboy's Big Brother! Part I
    Superboy
  4. 3. ["Be my guest at the Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros. 3-ring circus..."]
    Palisades Amusement Park Admission
  5. 4. ["Here's a customer, Ollie. Take care of him!"]
    Ollie
  6. 5. ["Featured in the next issue of Adventure Comics..."]
    Adventure Comics; Tales of the Bizarrro World
  7. 6. [Superboy's Big Brother! Part II] The Secret of Mon-El!
    Superboy
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    Smallville Mailsack
  9. 8. ["I hope this moose horn works!"]
    Ollie
  10. 9. Coming... Super-Attractions!
    Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen; Adventure Comics; Action Comics
  11. 10. The Super-Cop of Smallville!
    Superboy
  12. 11. Bicycle Windshield
    Bicycle Windshield
  13. 12. ["Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men! Win a beautiful new photo ring..."]
    Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve
  14. 13. 204 Revolutionary War Soldiers
    Revolutionary War Soldiers
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  • Valmiki Annamanthadoo
  • Chris Boyko
  • John Censullo
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Matthew Head
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Denys Howard
  • Bob Hughes
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • John Monagle
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Allen Ross
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Jim Walker